Don't make fun of me for liking this video. Feelings about My Chemical Romance aside, there is a pall-bearing dance number with umbrellas in the rain. That freaking rules.

12.) The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore

This must be the most lavish and beautiful one-take video ever conceived.

13.) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Last Dance With Mary Jane

One of the most celebrated on the list (at least in my circle), Last Dance With Mary Jane is such a perfect example of the power of narrative music video that I don't really care to ruin it with my comments.

14.) George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You

Pee Wee's British Mansion

15.) Francoise Hardy - Mon Amie La Rose

ECU beautiful woman and flower. Done.

16.) The Smoking Popes - I Know You Love Me

One-take performance video recalling The Cure's Friday I'm in Love in all its staged absurdity.

17.) The Cure - Let's Go To Bed

This hilariously idiosyncratic video was difficult to find, so pardon the compression. Between this and 'The Lovecats,' the Cure should be making you laugh out loud.

18.) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

Maps is just a solid performance video. Lighting and editing deliver a satisfying emotional arc, even if you're not sure why.

19.) Johnny Cash - Hurt

Directed by legendary Mark Romanek

20.) Weezer - El Scorcho

Also by Mark Romanek, and I think it's probably my favorite Weezer, as well.

21.) Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

You can make fun of it for being posery but I see it as more of a loving tribute. They build an interesting world in their own right.

22.) The White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground

It's hard to choose just one from the White Stripes / Gondry cannon, but Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground has always had a special place in my heart.

23.) Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass

The sappiest of their one-takes.

24.) Bat For Lashes - What's a Girl To Do

This music video is impossibly cool and I'm jealous of it. There.

25.) Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Sink / Let It Sway

SO MUCH FUN.

26.) Weird Al - White & Nerdy

Weird Al has many "great" music videos to his name but, personally, I find this to be the funniest. It's unique in that the character derives from a pool of cultural stereotypes rather than any specific celebrity, giving it a more personal signature than his others. Maybe that's overitellectualizing Weird Al, but this video makes me laugh out loud like, REALLY hard. I have to justify that somehow.

27.) Erasure - Heavenly Action

Consider this a replacement entry for Tonight, Tonight.

28.) Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl

Possibly the most fun ever packed into 3:28.

29.) Aerosmith - Jaded

So beautifully produced, even Tarsem would be jealous.

30.) The Cure - The Lovecats

Robert Smith & Puppets

31.) Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels

The Granddaddy of cherrypicker music videos.

32.) The Danielson Familie - Rubbernecker

If Howard Finster made a music video.

33.) Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Black and white, slow motion, things going backwards... Just the right amount of song for this much pretension. BOOM ROASTED, Enigma.

34.) Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend

A one-take light show reminding me of Romaneck's El Scorcho (#20), this video is tyyyyte. Robyn, please teach me how to be as awesome as you dance.

35.) Shakespeare's Sister - Stay

So maybe it's not the best ever, but I'm a sucker for this bluegray interpretation of silent film, and with no-holds-barred performances by Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit, Stay is nothing if not cinematic.

36.) Papa Don't Preach - Madonna

It's like one of her lesser-known eighties movies, only way more interesting.

37.) Tal Bachman - She's So High

Every girl secretly wants to be that rollerblading aviator.

38.) The Secret Machines - Lightning Blue Eyes

To quote my friend Justin, more than any movie I've seen, this video most closely recreates the feeling of being at a show.

39.) Bjork - Bachelorette

Gondrian perfection.

40.) Cibo Matto - Sugar Water

What makes this Michel Gondry trick video extra special is the interaction between frames.

41.) Janelle Monet - Tightrope

Janelle Monet just wins. She wins at life.

42.) Bjork - Human Behavior

Another by Michel, and my favorite Bjork tune.

43.) The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next To Me

Another wonderful one-take video with lots of dramatic light-play.

44.) Duran Duran - Rio

Their most iconic video, with too many striking and gorgeous images to mention. It gets no cooler than those suits on a speeding boat.

45.) Duran Duran - Save a Prayer

Equally iconic and even more epic, this is probably my favorite Duran Duran video.

46.) Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

Can't...stop...laughing...

47.) Massive Attack - Teardrop

An amazing feat of puppetry, and an image that will haunt both your dreams and nightmares.